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EP0451702B1
EP0451702B1 EP91105337A EP91105337A EP0451702B1 EP 0451702 B1 EP0451702 B1 EP 0451702B1 EP 91105337 A EP91105337 A EP 91105337A EP 91105337 A EP91105337 A EP 91105337A EP 0451702 B1 EP0451702 B1 EP 0451702B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H3/00—Separating articles from piles
    • B65H3/08—Separating articles from piles using pneumatic force
    • B65H3/0808—Suction grippers
    • B65H3/0891—Generating or controlling the depression

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  • the invention relates to a sheet feeder with a suction head arranged above a lifting table for a sheet stack, which has at least one suction device that can be connected or ventilated in cycles to a vacuum source and a cam disk that specifies the control cycle, and with sheet transport means arranged downstream of the suction head.
  • valves arranged in the suction head are usually designed as large cross-section disc or rotary piston valves. Apart from the effort caused by the installation in the suction head, larger flow and pressure losses are also to be feared due to the large cross sections and many deflections. But there is a very special disadvantage to see that there are extremely long distances to the consumers, that is between the suction device and the valve arranged in the suction head. The vacuum cannot be built up and broken down abruptly here, since long lines have to be vented or vented. The result of this is that a precisely defined sheet transfer to the further means of transport in the form of indexing rollers or the like is practically impossible.
  • a ventilation line and vacuum line which are provided at least one and are assigned to a suction device, run in opposite directions by means of a switching valve arranged close to the suction device, the vacuum line is interrupted when the ventilation line is open and vice versa, which can in turn be opened and closed by means of a cam disk actuated control valve is controlled.
  • the suction device can expediently have an upper part which is penetrated by a bore which forms a section of the vacuum line and from which the ventilation line leads to a ventilation opening and into which the switching valve designed as a two-way valve is installed.
  • the switching valve can contain a slide having a groove, which is arranged in a valve bore which is intersected with the through-bore forming a section of the vacuum line and the ventilation line leading away therefrom. This can be done by simple back and forth movement of the slider to achieve the desired up or down control of the compressed air line or the ventilation line. Since the slide can be moved quickly and practically without delay with a comparatively small force, this results in particularly precise switching times in an advantageous manner.
  • the bore receiving the slide can be connected in the area of at least one end face to a pressure medium line, preferably a compressed air line, which can be opened and closed or ventilated by means of the control valve.
  • a pressure medium preferably in the form of compressed air
  • the slide can be pressurized on both sides in a push-pull manner or can be conveniently simply moved in one direction by means of a return spring, which results in a particularly simple design.
  • the pressure medium line can be branched downstream of the control valve into a number of branches corresponding to the number of the assigned suction devices. This makes it possible to operate several suction cups with an integrated switching valve with the help of a control valve. This can be all suction cups of the suction head or, in any case, preferably all suction cups.
  • the sheet feeder on which FIG. 1 is based consists of a portal-shaped frame 1 in which a lifting table 2 for receiving a sheet stack 3 is received so that it can be raised and lowered.
  • a suction head 4 which overlaps the sheet stack 3 and is adjustable on the rear edge of the stack.
  • the suction head 4 is provided with suction cups 5, only one of which is indicated here to simplify the illustration.
  • the suction head 4 has a set of lifting vacuums and a set of drag vacuums.
  • the lifting vacuums have the task of lifting the top sheet 6 from the sheet stack 3.
  • the drag vacs have the task to take over the respectively lifted sheet 6 and bring it forward so far that it can come into engagement with further transport means 7 arranged in the front area of the frame 1, here in the form of indexing rollers.
  • a feed table 8 designed as a bender table, which ends at front marks 9, at which the sheets start with their front edges before they are drawn into a processing machine.
  • a cam disk 11 which can be driven by a drive shaft 10 connected to the single-speed shaft and by means of which the function of the suction cups 5 and the other moving units of the suction head 4 is controlled.
  • the suction cups 5 are connected to a vacuum source 13, for example in the form of an installed vacuum network, via a respectively assigned vacuum line 12 and are connected to it in cycles or separated and aerated therefrom.
  • a control valve 15 which is arranged in the suction head 4 and is provided with a button 14 resting on the cam plate 11, is provided, by means of which a switching valve 16 arranged close to the suction device can be controlled, via which the vacuum line 12 leads.
  • This switching valve 16 is designed as a two-way valve through which the vacuum line 12 can be interrupted and a ventilation opening 17 can be opened and vice versa.
  • a control line 18, which is connected to an energy source and is guided via the control valve 15, is provided.
  • this is designed as a pressure medium line connected to a pressure medium source 19, for example in the form of the installed compressed air network.
  • the control line 18 can be branched into a number of branches 18a corresponding to the number of the assigned suction devices 5, each of which leads to an assigned switching valve 16.
  • An associated control valve can be provided for each type of suction device, that is to say for the lifting suction devices and for the drag suction devices.
  • each suction cup or switching valve can assign a separate control valve to each suction cup or switching valve.
  • a separate switching valve 16 can be assigned to each suction device or each suction device group.
  • each suction valve 5 is to be assigned a switching valve 16 integrated in it, as can best be seen from FIGS. 2 and 3.
  • the suction device 5 on which the illustrated embodiment is based is a so-called jumping suction device, which, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, consists of a lower part with a suction plate 20 to which a rear sleeve 21 is attached, and of a on a suction rod-fixed support rod or the like.
  • Fixed upper part, which one of the cuff 21st Contains included pin 22 which is penetrated by a through-bore 23 coaxial therewith, which opens into the vacuum line 12 via a connecting piece and accordingly forms the end thereof on the suction side.
  • the suction plate 20 is supported on the pin 22 by means of a spring 24 and can be lifted off from this by forming an expansion space 25 which is delimited on the circumferential side by the sleeve 21, into which the through hole 23 opens and from which the suction holes 26 of the suction plate 20 extend.
  • the size of this stroke of the lower part of the suction cup is limited by a stop 27 which interacts with a collar of the sleeve 21 and is fixed to the upper part.
  • the housing block 29 of the suction upper part which carries the pin 22 is provided with a valve bore 30 which runs transversely to the through bore 23 and to a branch of the branch 28 parallel thereto and is arranged here coaxially with the ventilation opening 17 and in which a slide 31 is slidably received, which between the the end positions underlying FIGS. 2 and 3 can be moved back and forth.
  • This slide 31 has two pistons 33 and 34, which are set apart from one another by a circumferential annular groove 32.
  • the slide 31 is pushed into its ventilation position on which FIG. 2 is based by an assigned actuating spring 35, in which the through bore 23 belonging to the vacuum line 12 is interrupted by the piston 33 and the branch 28 leading to the ventilation opening 17 is released.
  • the slide 31 is displaced by the pressure medium which can be controlled by means of the control valve 15.
  • the associated branch 18a of the control line is connected to the valve bore 30 on the side opposite the spring 35.
  • the control edges of the slide 31 and the distances between the through hole 23 and the branch of the branch 28 parallel thereto are matched to one another in such a way that the switching positions mentioned above can be reached. Accordingly, the distance of the said branch of the branch 28 from the end of the valve bore 30 opposite the ventilation opening 17 corresponds at least to the length of the slide 31, so that in the end position of the slide 31 remote from the ventilation opening 17, the ventilation flow path indicated by arrows in FIG. 2 results. This is very short due to the internal arrangement of the ventilation opening 17.
  • the distance of the through bore 23 from the ventilation-side end of the valve bore 30 corresponds at least to the length of the ventilation-side piston 33, so that in the end position on which FIG. 3 is based, the annular groove 32 is congruent comes with the through bore 23 and thus releases the flow path indicated by arrows in FIG. 3.
  • the clear width of the annular groove 32 can correspond to the diameter of the through hole 23.
  • compressed air taken from the installed compressed air network can be used as pressure medium, which is controlled by the control valve 15, by opening or closing off the control line 18 designed as a compressed air line and venting it downstream of the shut-off.
  • the control valve 15 can simply be designed as a two-way valve provided with a ventilation outlet 37. But it would also be conceivable to move the slide 31 electromagnetically.
  • the control line could be designed as a power cable and the control valve as a switching relay.
  • Vacuum is constantly present in the vacuum line 12.
  • pressure medium is constantly present at the control valve 15.
  • the slider 31 As soon as the slider 31 is acted upon by appropriate actuation of the control valve 15, it moves into the position on which FIG. 3 is based, in which the bore 23 is separated from the ventilation opening 17 and connected to the vacuum line 12, so that the suction plate 20 or whose bores 26 result in a suction draft which leads to the suction of the uppermost sheet 6 and then to a reduction of the expansion space 25.
  • the air volume present when opening the passage from the bore 23 to the vacuum line 12 below the slide 21 is relatively small, so that the above-mentioned suction results suddenly.
  • the slide 31 returns here under the action of the spring 35 to the end position on which the FIG. 2 is based, in which the through hole 23 is separated from the vacuum line 12 and connected to the ventilation opening 17 is.
  • the line volume below the slide 31, which has to be ventilated, is also very small, so that the ventilation effect also appears suddenly.
  • the sheet previously held on the suction plate 20 is released.
  • the lower part of the suction cup can be extended under the action of the spring 24, so that the next sheet is sucked in when the next vacuum is applied.

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  1. Margeur comportant une tête d'aspiration (4) disposée au-dessus d'une table élévatrice (2) pour une pile de feuilles (3) et présentant au moins un aspirateur (5) pouvant tantôt être raccordé à une source de vide (13), tantôt être ventilé et une came (11) définissant le rythme de commande, et comportant des moyens (7) pour le transport des feuilles placés en aval de la tête d'aspiration (4), caractérisé en ce qu'une conduite de ventilation (17, 28) qui est associée à l'aspirateur (5) qui est au moins prévu et une conduite de vide (12) peuvent être tour à tour ouvertes ou fermées (la conduite de vide (12) est fermée lorsque la conduite de ventilation (17, 28) est ouverte et inversement) au moyen d'une soupape de distribution (16) disposée à proximité de l'aspirateur qui, quant à elle, est commandée à l'aide d'une soupape de commande (15) actionnée par la came (11).
  2. Margeur selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que la soupape de distribution (16) est montée sur l'aspirateur (5) qui lui est associé, de préférence logée dans l'aspirateur (5) qui lui est associé.
  3. Margeur selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que l'aspirateur (5) présente une partie supérieure traversée par un perçage (23) au niveau duquel débouche la conduite de vide (12) et duquel part la conduite de ventilation (17, 28), partie supérieure dans laquelle est logée la soupape de distribution réalisée en tant que distributeur progressif à deux voies.
  4. Margeur selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que la soupape de distribution (16) présente un clapet (31) présentant une rainure annulaire (32), lequel est disposé dans un perçage de la soupape (30) qui est coupé par le perçage (23) raccordé à la conduite de vide (12) et par la conduite de ventilation (17, 28) partant de ce perçage.
  5. Margeur selon la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce que le perçage de la soupape (30) dans laquelle est logé le clapet (31) est raccordé dans la zone d'au moins une face frontale à une conduite de fluide sous pression, de préférence à une conduite d'air comprimé, qui forme une conduite de commande (18, 18a) pouvant être ouverte et fermée ou ventilée au moyen de la soupape de commande (15).
  6. Margeur selon la revendication 4 ou 5, caractérisé en ce que le clapet (31) peut être déplacé dans une position de distribution au moyen d'un ressort de rappel (35).
  7. Margeur selon l'une des revendications 5 et 6, caractérisé en ce que la soupape de commande (15) est réalisée en tant que distributeur progressif à deux voies muni d'une ouverture de ventilation (37).
  8. Margeur selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'en aval de la soupape de commande (15), la conduite de commande (18) est ramifiée en plusieurs, de préférence en un nombre de branches (18a) correspondant au nombre d'aspirateurs (5).
  9. Margeur selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'une soupape de distribution (16) est au moins associée à chaque aspirateur d'avancement.
  10. Margeur selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'une soupape de distribution (16) est associée à chaque aspirateur (5).
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